My artistic practice deals with the delicate balance between
the impersonal existence and the human soul with an ancient painting method,
called encaustic (painting with melted, and coloured beewax). The organic beewax
is a highly sacred material and has a complex symbol system. On the other hand,
the bees existence is essential for the whole ecology, included the human life.
This constant duality raises countless questions in
contemporary art, and draws a parallel with the modernity and traditional
approach. With my interiors and figurative paintings my intention is to
discover hidden places in the subconscious. Querying the reality with the tools
of grotesqueness and oddity is one of my aims. I try to place mental inquiry at
the heart of each image I create.
The focus of my interest has been the personal estrangement.
How people alienate themselves from society and nature, while still trying to
redefine their identity. I try to catch the agony, melancholy, and the fear of the
subconscious. Is it possible to maintain the almost forgotten traditional art
tools and techniques, such as encaustic, and reflect on the present or the
future?
Order and chaos made by this geometric forms
and structures close up an organic form. The background creates a crowded,
vibrant virtual „noise” what evokes the „horror vacui”(aversion of empty
spaces), nevertheless we still can find system in the mess. This geometrical
composition shows through the mild yellow encaustic wax and generate several
layers.
Bees and beewax itself has a deeply symbolic meaning,
originates in Christianity, connected with the light and transcendent. The
subjects of my current art method are perished animals painted with beewax.
Recently I illustrate dead rabbits and hares which are lunar symbols with huge sacral
significance. This animal has many reference in hungarian folklore and tales.
My personal aspect comes from childhood memories of stock-raising and slaughter
the rabbits. Nowadays my paintings based on how does the human memory work when
it comes to recalling memories many times, do they modify and how? So mostly my
figurative paintings represent the loss of the childhood and pureness, With my
works I try to find where is the edge when a child became an adult.